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[quote user="zugmann"] <blockquote>Safety improvements cost money.  Lots and lots of money.  You will go broke trying to build the perfect mousetrap.  </blockquote> I will say again:  the following two trucks apparently saw the gates and safely came to a stop.  Would an extra set of flashing lights made a difference?   [/quote] I don't know if the extended advance warning would have made any difference.  If the driver was trying to beat the train, but aborted the attempt when he saw he could not make it, then the advance warning would not have had any effect.  But if the driver simply lost 10-15 seconds of the 25-second warning due to inattention, then I would say there is a very high probability that the extented advance warning would have prevented the crash.  The mousetrap does not need to be perfect, but it can be improved.  Furthermore, the authorities who run that road have the better mousetrap in their inventory.  And it is specifcally intended for grade crossings on relatively fast highways.
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